<b><font size="4">"synchronic"</font></b><br/><b>adjective</b> <ol> <li>occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase; "recovery was synchronous with therapy"- Jour.A.M.A.; "a synchronous set of clocks"; "the synchronous action of a bird's wings in flight"; "synchronous oscillations" [syn: <a href="../synchronous.html">synchronous</a>, <a href="../synchronal.html">synchronal</a>] [ant: <a href="../asynchronous.html">asynchronous</a>] </li> <li>concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"; "descriptive linguistics" [syn: <a href="../descriptive.html">descriptive</a>] [ant: <a href="../diachronic.html">diachronic</a>] </li> <li>(of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time</li> </ol> Source: <a href="../synchronic.html">http://www.word.sc/synchronic</a>

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